The Great Evolution 

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End of War 


by 

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Plans for a Great Political Party 



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The Great Evolution 

AND 

End of War 

By JOHN MILTON ROSS 


Plans for a 

GREAT POLITICAL PARTY 

With the Slogan 

“Kings and Emperors and War no More” 

Control of 

Finance and Commerce by the People 


Price: 50 Cents in Paper 
$ 1.00 in Cloth 


PUBLISHED BY J. M. ROSS 

4609 Russell Ave. 

Los Angeles, California 




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Copyright 1914 
By JOHN MILTON ROSS 
Los Angeles, Cal. 


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DEDICATION 

May God speed this message of Universal Peace to the 
minds of all men in all nations, to whom this book is fraternally 
dedicated by the author— 

JOHN MILTON ROSS 


Printed by Phillips Printing Co. 
250 East Fourth Street 
Los Angeles, Cal. 


November 9th, 1914 


CONTENTS 


Evolution of Finance and Government. 7 

Bank Stocks Unsafe at More Than Par. 8 

The Plan....-.11 

The Brokerage System...—-.12 

The Banking System. 13 

The Insurance System. 14 

How To Raise Capital.....-15 

The Great Political Party.17 

Government Control.21 

Bryan Was Right... 21 

Rail Road Stocks Too Risky To Buy.21 

Three Useless Profit Takers.22 

Missing Link in Business Supplied.23 

New Haven Rail Road Steal...,.,.„.„..„25 

People’s Stores ip All Communities.30 

Millions Too Many Store Buildings.30 

Investment in Store Buildings Very Risky.30 

The Only Safe Investment.31 

Women’s Votes Will Stop War.32 

Peace Department of Government. 34 

The Freeze-out Man the Worst Criminal. 35 

Four American Statesmen Who Can Stop War in All 

Nations . 40 

No Kingdoms or Empires by 1925.46 

World’s Great Military Maniac. 49 

Your Ballot Only For Peace.50 

Cost of Kings. 54 

Scaffold for Kings. 53 

Why War. 59 

Woman Suffrage...*.. ^ 

Peace References. ^ 

A. B. C. of the War. ZZZ'ZZ’m 

Strength of Nations. 6 g 

Cost of Militarism... 70 




































PREFACE 


Every man and woman in all nations should 
know the contents of this book . 

It is not the size of a book which makes 
it valuable; it is the contents. We have a 
great common life and property-destroying 
system of finance and government abroad in 
the world! How can we become united to 
stop this terrible monster of death and de¬ 
struction? Herein is supplied the plan to 
conquer the demon of war. To cure disease, 
medical science seeks the cause and invents 
remedies and means to kill the germs of first 
cause. More men are killed in wars than by 
all other pestilences; more than fifteen million 
men have been murdered in war since the year 
1700 A. D.! Barbarians, the Rulers. When the 
cause of such a terrible destroyer of humanity 
has been found, then the next thing to do is 
to remove the cause, the very germ. 

What is the cause of War? Answer. The 
rule by capitalists, kings and emperors. How 
to evolutionize this rule from these three 
classes of murderers and robbers, into the 
absolute control by the people, is well ex¬ 
plained in this book. The end of the oppres¬ 
sion of capitalists, kings and emperors is in 
sight. It shows how the people will engage in 
business in every community and will make 
the enormous millions and billions of dollars 
which has heretofore been made by these rob¬ 
bers. It shows how thousands and millions of 
people will be financed and started into busi¬ 
ness, manufacturing, farming, etc., through 
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the organization of a gigantic financial and 
commercial system. 

It shows that American railroad stocks 
may be worth $150 today and 30c tomorrow, 

and are therefore unsafe investments or for 
bank collateral. It also shows how many bank 
stocks may not be worth more than par, unless 
affiliated with this system. It shows that the 
Great Common People will rule government 
and finance by establishing a New Political 
Party, which has for its slogan Kings and Em¬ 
perors and Wars no more. It will stand for 
all the popular reform movements. 

It will stand for a new department of gov¬ 
ernment. The Department of Peace, to re¬ 
place, at no distant date, the Tax and Death 
Department, viz: the War Department. 

It stands for letting business pay all taxes 
and gives the poor and oppressed a just rest 
from this burden. It stands for the general 
uplift of all humanity in all nations. It stands 
for prohibition and woman suffrage. When 
women vote wars will stop. When the people 
rule, oppression will cease. It stands for com¬ 
mission government in both state and nation, 
which is the only just and safe form. 

This is a big money-making system which 
appeals to the selfish interest of men in many 
ways, so strongly that it is going to be the 
most popular movement ever espoused by any 
political party. 

This new party will get the greatest fol¬ 
lowing of any party that has ever been started 
in any nation. 

It means the Emancipation of Man. 

JOHN MILTON ROSS. 

6 


THE GREAT EVOLUTION AND 
END OF WAR 

Man has ever been passing through stages 
or epochs of evolution and it would be con¬ 
trary to this law to say that he is not now 
passing from the old and inadequate methods 
into a newer one, invented through the nec¬ 
essity of the advancing stages of progress, 
which is more adapted to the present age. 

Evolution means to progress, growth, ad¬ 
vancement into a more perfect state or con¬ 
dition. 

Evolution applies to nearly all things; 
from the fact that most all things evolve from 
the primitive to the modern. 

The automobile, the locomotive and the 
airship have evolutionized travel. Telegraphy, 
the telephone and Marconi wireless discover¬ 
ies in science have evolutionized our means of 
communication. 

The whole list might here be enumerated, 
including all of the modern inventions in me¬ 
chanics, surgery, medicine, sciences, arts, 
modes, methods and systems as pertain to the 
operation of finance, commerce, government, 
etc. 

The Great Evolution and End of War here¬ 
in explained, pertains to a new system of fin¬ 
ance, commerce and government with which 
war, the greatest terror to humanity, can and 
will be forever banished from the earth 
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through the control of finance by the Peace 
Leagues of the world. 

This system of evolution has been devised 
and its realization and practical operation in 
the affairs of man is inevitable. The present 
financial and commercial institutions could 
work mutually with the Peace Leagues in 
creating and perpetuating this impregnable 
system of finance and commerce, and by so 
doing a very rapid realization of this greatest 
of all movements could be accomplished; but 
if the present financial system seeks to oppose 
this new plan of Evolution, it will mean the 
ultimate liquidation of the affairs of the pres¬ 
ent financial and commercial institutions and 
the announcement of this plan and its accep¬ 
tance by the Peace Leagues of the world 
would, at once, cause a panic in values of bank 
stocks and many stocks of large commercial 
institutions. 

The United States annual outlay for the 
upkeep of the Army, Navy and Pensions, 
reaches the enormous sum of about $440,000,- 
000! The staggering expenditure of all na¬ 
tions passes the appalling sum of over $4,000,- 
000,000! Pour thousand millions for wrong 
thinking! 

THE WORLD IS GROANING 

The world is groaning, almost to revolu¬ 
tion, under the ever-increasing, unbearable, 
gigantic burden of taxation, which is being 
imposed, mostly on the poor and middle 
classes, for the insane upkeep of savage, bar¬ 
barous, monster armaments; for the upkeep 
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of millions of soldiers and sailors and unjust 
enriching of hundreds of thousands of need¬ 
less middlemen in our modern system of com¬ 
merce and finance, viz., the wholesaler and the 
bond banker and stock gambler. 

Wall street and other similar dens of 
money manipulators in Europe, have for ages 
made millions! Yes, billions of dollars through 
the promotion and financing of War, thereby 
causing the death of millions of good men who 
held naught against each other, but who, 
through the devilish process of war, were 
forced to shoot each other down. About 15,- 
000,000 killed since 1700 A. D.! 

This in the present time of our boasted 
civilization! Yet we pray, “Thy will be done, 
Oh, Lord.” Awake to your duty, all human¬ 
ity! Awake all Christendom! Awake all fra¬ 
ternity! DO YOUR DUTY. Why be out¬ 
generaled by these money demons and wicked 
ambitious kings, emperors and political ty¬ 
rants ? If we depend on philanthropy and the 
slow consciences of nations we may yet be 
responsible for the murder of millions more 
on the savage battlefield. 

Selfish interest is the greatest mover of 
things in the world. 

My plan is for the people to engage in 
strong competition against these promoters 
of war. The people will make as many mil¬ 
lions, yes as many billions, out of the promo¬ 
tion of universal peace as these vampires and 
demons have made out of war; a gigantic sys¬ 
tem of finance and commerce with a soul, with 
the comfort, uplift and betterment of mankind 
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as its only goal and with this SLOGAN — 
KINGS AND EMPERORS AND WARS NO 
MORE. 

This puts the process on an enduring basis. 
By this plan part of the profits of commerce 
goes into this impregnable financial system, 
which will grow to unbounded strength by 
creating an unlimited surplus fund in the bank 
of nations, which is done automatically, as will 
be seen further on in this work. 

There are other basis or medium of com¬ 
merce than money; this is credit based on land. 
After years of study on the problem, a most 
practical system has been devised and herein 
set forth, by which the whole people as stock¬ 
holders in three very strong financial and com¬ 
mercial corporations and a store and banking 
system, in all communities, will engage in 
powerful competition against Wall Street’s 
hell-owned promoters of war. 

When the nations disarm, the taxes from 
luxuries and incomes should pay the burden 
of taxation, thereby relieving the oppressed 
poor, laboring man, who is only able to buy 
the scant necessities of life and no luxuries 
at all. 

EVOLUTION IN FINANCE AND GOV¬ 
ERNMENT IS INEVITABLE 

The Plan 

THIS SYSTEM consists of the following 
three great Corporations and Store System: 

1st. The International Commercial Com¬ 
pany. 

Authorized Capital from $25,000,000 to 
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$100,000,000, with subsidiary companies in 
each state, with a capital of from $1,000,000 to 
$10,000,000. 

The main company would act in the ca¬ 
pacity of a governing or clearing house for 
the state organizations, all of which should 
have corporate powers to do any and all kinds 
of business as an individual can do, except 
banking. 

The Officers 

The officers of all these institutions should 
be employed regardless of politics, sect or na¬ 
tionality. 

All under the control of Peace Leagues to 
be organized in all communities. 

Branches of the International Commercial 
Company and Bank. 

There should be organized in each state 
a branch of the above with a name for the 
state in it. The capital should be in propor¬ 
tion to the per capita wealth of the state, say 
$1,000,000 for such states as Arizona, Arkan¬ 
sas and Rhode Island; $5,000,000 to $10,000,- 
000 for such states as New York, Massachu¬ 
setts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. 

Purposes and Functions 

The functions to be performed by these in¬ 
stitutions will be: 

1st. The guaranteeing of bonds and credits. 

2nd. A general brokerage business in 
stocks and bonds and all kinds of mill, factory, 
mine and farm products. 

3rd. A general realty and development 
business. 


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Kind of Bonds Bought 

Bonds that are secured by real estate at 
50c to the $1.00 in value and for the purpose 
of starting stores, factories, mines and farms, 
by people who will buy peace stamps, will be 
bought and put on the general bond markets, 
underwritten by these strong companies. 

Credit Guarantee Department 

In this department the accounts of con¬ 
sumers who desire credit from these affiliated 
stores and factories will be guaranteed by this 
company where satisfactory collateral is 
given, a charge commensurate with the service 
will be made. This service will place the re¬ 
tail business on as safe a basis as the banking 
business—this is the u missing l in k” in busi¬ 
ness today. 

This company would be a SOURCE of 
CREDIT for all who need and seek credit. 
Through this department a great assistance 
will be afforded people who live in a foreign 
state or nation and who desire to use their 
property as collateral for engaging in business 
in a different state or country from where 
their property is located. 

This is a greatly needed service by people 
in all states and nations desiring to move or 
who have moved, as it prevents, in many cases, 
a great sacrifice. 

Brokerage Department 

In this department Bonds and Stocks 
which are issued by the stores, factories, and 
other industries which are affiliated with this 
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system, will be underwritten, bought and sold 
by these companies. 

General merchandise, mill, factory, farm 
products of every nature, will be sold at all 
wholesale centers where this system will es¬ 
tablish and operate offices and warerooms. 

A General Real Estate brokerage business, 
in all branches, will be conducted. 

Income 

The income from the thousands of stores, 
mills, factories and farms, which will be 
bonded and which will buy peace stamps at 
the price of two and one-half to five cents on 
every dollar’s worth of business they transact, 
will bring into this company an enormous in¬ 
come. 

Disbursements of this Income 

One-half of this income will go to the 
stockholders as dividends. One-fourth will be 
invested in bonds as a surplus fund to the 
Bank of Nations. The other one-fourth will 
be used as a general relief fund, education and 
life insurance for the poor, old age pensions; 
free dispensaries, etc. 

The Bank of Nations 

Should have authorized capital from $100,- 
000,000 to $250,000,000. Shares $100 each, to 
sell among the great masses to prevent its 
control by the capitalists. 

Powers and Purposes 

This bank should act as a clearing house 
and central or re-discount institution for 51 
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other banks, one to be organized in each state, 
Alaska 1, P. I. 1, Hawaii 1, Panama 1, P. R. 1. 

The State Banks 

Should have authorized capital stock of 
from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. Shares $100 
each. Sell the stock to the masses on easy 
terms. 

Powers and Purposes 

These state banks in turn would act as re¬ 
discount and clearing house institutions for 
many other smaller banks in these states. 

Loans would be made only to people, firms 
and corporations, who would become associ¬ 
ated with this peace plan and buy peace 
stamps for all their products and sales passing 
through their hands. No loans would be made 
to Warring Nations, or to any nation which is 
ruled by a king or emperor or that maintains 
an army or navy. 

Disbursements of Profits 

One-half of the profits would be paid to 
the stockholders as dividends. One-fourth 
would pass to an unlimited surplus fund. One- 
fourth would go into the general relief fund as 
set out for the International Commercial Co. 

Plans Continued 

The Universal Insurance Company- 

Should be capitalized at from $100,000 000 
to $1,000,000,000. Should conduct life, fire and 
marine insurance at lowest rates. 

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All states should establish a model insur¬ 
ance department similar to the Wisconsin sys¬ 
tem. These state organizations should be 
branches of the main company. This will fur¬ 
ther aid the peace party through these Peace 
Leagues to completely control finances. 

This insurance company would be man¬ 
aged on similar plans as the other corpora¬ 
tions of this system as to management, loans 
and disbursements of profits. 

How to Raise Capital for These Gigantic 
Corporations 

1st. By a gift of one dollar from each 
member. 

2nd. By direct subscription. 

3rd. By philanthropy. 

4th. By the sale of peace stamps. 

By the sale of peace stamps, which can be 
done on a similar plan to the one now in use 
by trading stamp companies, each store to 
place Peace Stamps on all cash sales made. 
This might be done in two methods. This 
method would be operated on similar plans 
and percentages as are followed in raising a 
war tax. 

The peace Leagues of each community 
would place a Peace Stamp receptacle similar 
to a mail box in each store, office or place of 
business where stamps are to be used where 
purchases are made. Stamps would be given 
to the customer who would deposit same in 
this Peace Stamp receptacle, or, second, 
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stamps might be placed on all merchandise as 
it originates from manufacturers or whole¬ 
saler, thus eliminating the slower process 
above outlined. 

Where stores are started in business 
through the financing by the Bank of Nations 
and the International Commercial Co., they 
would be required to buy all goods from man¬ 
ufacturers and wholesalers with stamps at¬ 
tached. This would compel manufacturers 
and wholesalers to buy these stamps which 
would again simplify this process of raising 
capital. 

The peace league would organize and start 
stores in all communities where the merchants 
refuse to buy Peace Stamps. 

All banks should take stock in the Bank 
of Nations to the extent of 10 per cent of their 
capital stock. All stores, mills and factories 
which are affiliated with this system should 
take stock to the amount of 10 per cent of their 
capital in these three corporations. 

Convert stocks of merchandise into stocks 
and bonds as follows: 

Through the Brokerage Department sell 
stocks of merchandise, land, houses, lots, and 
all kinds of things, the same to be taken in 
stocks and bonds in equal proportions of the 
following corporations: 

International Commercial Corporation. 

The Bank of Nations. 

International Insurance Company. 

The State Commercial Companies. 

The State Banks. 


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PLANS FOR STARTING THIS SYSTEM 

Organize a New Political Party 

which might be named 

The Evolutionist Peace Party 
American Evolutionists 

or another appropriate name, with the Slogan: 
Kings and Emperors and Wars No More. 

HOW TO ORGANIZE THIS NEW PARTY 

This would be done in the same way which 
is always pursued in such matters. First cre¬ 
ate a national organization; then a state or¬ 
ganization; next county and local leagues in 
all communities. 

These local leagues will be organized 
through the strong co-operation of all people 
who desire no more wars, which will include 
all Fraternal Orders, the Prohibition Party, 
Anti-Saloon Leagues, American Federation of 
Labor, all Labor Unions, all Women’s Clubs 
and Leagues, all Churches, Schools, the Re¬ 
form leaders from all parties and all people 
who want the people to rule absolutely instead 
of the capitalists, Kings and Emperors. 

If this American Peace League should be¬ 
gin the organization of local Leagues on a 
very agressive scale, with the same vim and 
push which is pursued in times of war for 
recruiting and for raising war funds, within 
an astounding short period of not more than 
90 days, every village, town and city should 
be well organized, and raising funds and per¬ 
fecting this machinery for the World Peace. 

The same aggressive business methods 
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should be followed in organizing this system 
in all nations and within one year’s time the 
inevitable submission of these war dogs or 
demons, these selfish, vain, world-glory seek¬ 
ers, the Kings and Emperors, who hold in 
their hands the lives of millions of men, to the 
irresistable power of this world conquering 
system of finance, will be accomplished. 

Members of the local or state leagues 
should be paid a fair commission on all sales 
of stamps and donations they may obtain for 
the leagues, excepting to commercial institu¬ 
tions which are affiliated with the league; this 
will get business. 

Local Leagues should receive a reasonable 
part of all revenues received from the sale of 
stamps to commercial firms. Charter mem¬ 
bers should receive $1.00 for each new member 
they may secure for the league; this will se¬ 
cure members in a hurry. 

All Peace Leagues, Banks and Post Of¬ 
fices should sell Peace Stamps. 

All stores and property taken into this sys¬ 
tem should pay five per cent commission to the 
local leagues and the originator of this system 
of. Evolution, and the latter should also re¬ 
ceive the usual percentage of promotion stock 
in all these companies. 

Admission Fees for Membership 

$5 to $10 initiation fee will be charged, 
payable on easy terms, then $1.00 per month. 
$1.00 to go to the charter members for secur¬ 
ing the new member; $1.00 to go to the State 
Leagues; $1.00 to the National League; $1.00 
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to go to a perpetual capital stock of the Bank 
of Nations; $1.00 to pay for a copy of the 
Great Evolution and End of War. 

High Class Fraternal and Social Orders 

These local leagues should be made the 
very highest character Fraternal orders and 
social leagues, embracing everything that will 
advance and benefit its members and uplift, 
relieve, educate and entertain. Each league 
should have one vote only in state and na¬ 
tional elections, all members and stockhold¬ 
ers should have only one vote regardless of 
the number of shares owned. This will be rule 
by man instead of money. 

This New Party Should Stand for the Follow¬ 
ing Form of Government 

The Federal form of government should be 
a commission form, which should include three 
commissioners for the United States to be 
elected from three separate groups of states, 
viz: the Eastern and Southern group to in¬ 
clude all states lying east of the Mississippi 
and Ohio rivers and should include Indiana 
and Michigan. 

The Central group should include Minne¬ 
sota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New 
Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois, 
Arkansas and Louisiana. 

The Western group should include all 
states west of the central group. 

Voters in all states should vote for any 
three candidates, one in each group at the 
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same election. Each candidate must therefore 
prove his worth and popularity in the nation 
at large. The American Peace League can 
soon control the standardized money of the 
world if they will appressively begin opera¬ 
tions in the United States and all other coun¬ 
tries where war is not in progress. Each state 
should have three commissioners, instead of 
one governor. 

This Party Should Stand for the Following 
Reforms 

The initiative, referendum and recall, pro¬ 
hibition, woman suffrage, disfranchisement 
of illiteracy, all the popular reform move¬ 
ments, a FEDERAL PEACE DEPART¬ 
MENT, government ownership of communica¬ 
tion and transportation. 

Good roads, safety at sea, free dispensar¬ 
ies, health departments, in state and nation, 
insurance by the states and nations, civic cen¬ 
ters for farmers, turn slum districts into 
parks, department of relief and amusement of 
the old and poor. Free employment bureaus 
everywhere. 

Dress reform commission. Large syndi¬ 
cated manufacturers of apparel force as great 
a burden upon the people as our tax for main¬ 
tenance of the army and navy, by forcing new 
and vulgar styles in dress, upon the market 
every three months, thereby forcing the small¬ 
er manufacturers and merchants out of this 
line of business, which is another cause of 
discontent. 


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GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RAIL¬ 
ROADS IMPERATIVE 

Railroad stocks are unsafe investments 
now. 

Bryan Was Right 

The passing of time and the occurrence of 
some events, has proven that Mr. Bryan was 
not guessing at big things when he announced 
on his return from an investigating tour of 
European methods that the government 
should own the railroads. 

The stockholders of the New Haven Rail¬ 
road, the St. Louis & San Francisco and some 
others, have had sufficient experience now to 
convince them, that if their securities had been 
under government supervision that they 
would not have been looted of more than sixty 
millions of dollars by financiers, as was the 
case with the New Haven. 

These incidents have so shaken the confi¬ 
dence of investors in the private ownership of 
railroads that American railroads have about 
reached their length under the present con¬ 
trol; until the government takes over the large 
systems, people will not take hold of railroad 
securities any more, only at greatly reduced 
prices. They are afraid of similar raids being 
made which will wipe out the value of their 
holdings. This proves that the present sys¬ 
tem of finance and commerce is radically 
wrong. 

When a few of the large systems of roads 
make application for government control 
through this system, then is when American 
railroad construction will take on new life and 

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will find plenty of capital with which to con¬ 
struct more road and extent in all branches. 
The people are calling for this evolution from 
the old dangerous system to the new safe sys¬ 
tem. 

Bank stocks will not be worth more than 
the amount of government security behind 
them, when this new system begins operation, 
unless they become affiliated with it. This 
system will take the inflated values out of all 
stocks which are now being advertised onto 
the public at big prices. 

All stocks of banks and railroads will reach 
the top of value when the banks and roads join 
this system to the extent of ten per cent or 
more of their value and help start this new 
system of finance and commerce. 

When a system of finance is such that it 
will permit stock manipulators and financiers 
to wreck a big railroad system in a few days’ 
time, the time is ripe for a radical change. 

When a financial system is so imperfect 
that it fosters and creates three or more profit 
takers which are needless adjuncts to the con¬ 
duct of commerce, then the system is radically 
wrong and unjust and unsafe. 

I refer here to the wholesale merchant, the 
bond banker, the stock shark. If the banks 
would take the proper care of the require¬ 
ments of merchants and producers, the whole¬ 
saler would not be required, but the merchant 
can’t get sufficient loans, therefore the whole¬ 
saler finds him a willing buyer of goods at 
twenty to forty per cent profit, which the mer¬ 
chant should have been able to buy from a 
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brokerage firm or direct from the manufactur¬ 
er, if the banker had taken care of him. 

This system furnishes a heretofore miss¬ 
ing link in business by the guaranteeing of 
consumers’ accounts upon good security being 
given. This makes the retail business safe 
and takes away the great loss and worry here¬ 
tofore experienced. 

The wholesalers and manufacturers are so 
strong that the banker is forced to loan money 
to them with which to buy goods to sell to the 
fellow who should have borrowed this money 
from this banker, thereby saving this whole¬ 
saler’s profit, this is the merchant; but who 
has to pay in the end? It is the people. 

Is the wholesaler a necessity? We will 
give the bond banker a little consideration. 

For illustration: Smith and Jones desire 
to sell $100,000 worth of perfectly good bonds 
with $150,000 of security back of them. They 
want to start an industrial plant. They go to 
the bankers but these bankers have just re¬ 
turned from a bankers’ association, where it 
was agreed that the large bond bankers should 
have a clear track for all such investments, 
therefore Jones and Smith are compelled to 
hunt for a market for their bonds through the 
medium of the bond broker and stock shark, 
who finds a buyer, this bond banker, for these 
bonds at 75c to 80c on the dollar, with a bonus 
of twenty-five per cent of the stock to accom¬ 
pany the bonds. Their dollars only have 80c 
in them, while their competitors have dollars 
with 100 cents in them. All of this hold-up 
robbery is being put off on the people because 
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the present system of banks, through their 
failure to take just care of legitimate business, 
forces upon the people, the wholesaler, these 
bond banks and stock sharks. 

The stock shark ought to be employed by 
the government to dump all his surplus water 
onto the western deserts and if he could be 
held onto those arid plains long enough, we 
might expect to see blades of grass in the place 
of hot grains of sand. 

He takes a railroad that costs ten million 
of dollars, stocks it at forty million, then be¬ 
gins a shrewd and polished advertising cam¬ 
paign and the dear suckers and lambs begin 
buying this stock. Then when it is all sold, 
this same gang of sharks and bond bankers 
take it through the squeezing process or the 
New Haven process and get it all back again, 
and then as they have nothing else with which 
to amuse their talents, they put over the same 
process on the dear good people again and we 
say the Mexicans are illiterate and ignorant! 

The time has come for real evolution in 
finance and commerce. It will come through 
this new evolution party. 

The following is copied from the editorial 
columns of the the Los Angeles Evening Her- 
aid, August 27, 1914: 

War or No War, the New Haven Brigands 
Should Pay Back Stolen Money 

In wartime some things are forgotten, and 
some criminals may escape punishment. But 
the robbery of the New Haven Railroad should 
not he forgotten or the criminals responsible 

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allowed to escape. Energetically, by private 
individuals and by government agents, all of 
those responsible for* robbing thousands of 
innocent stockholders, stealing tens of millions 
of money, should be prosecuted. 

There is no particularly good reason why 
a country which puts a man in jail for stealing 
a pair of boots or a loaf of bread should for¬ 
give a man who, rich already, steals tens of 
millions to add to his property. 

This country will be DISGRACED IE IT 
PROVES UNABLE TO PUNISH with im¬ 
prisonment those responsible for the New 
Haven robbery, and in addition to take from 
the robbers whatever they may have by way 
of atonement and restitution to those who 
were robbed. 

From the Evening Herald, August 25, 
1914: 

“The only real and permanent solution of 
the railroad problam, as every other problem 
of NATURAL PUBLIC MONOPOLY, is 
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP, and that is 
coming more quickly than is realized by the 
gentlemen whose stealing and impertinent 
contempt for law have hastened government 
ownership by many years. 

While waiting for government ownership, 
only a visionary idiot would suggest that the 
remedy for dishonesty is to forbid the organ¬ 
izing economy which alone offers hope of de¬ 
cent service. 

Encourage, combinations, REGULATE 
THEM NOW, make them national property 
as soon as possible. 


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To railroad gentlemen and to others own¬ 
ing public monopolies, we submit this fact: 

You can continue robbing and fighting the 
public and disregarding law for some time to 
come. 

BUT EVERY DAY YOU DO THIS YOU 
DIMINISH YOUR CHANCE OF GETTING 
A FAIR PRICE FOR YOUR PROPERTY. 

Five or ten years ago government owner¬ 
ship would probably have meant fair compen¬ 
sation for existing property. 

Today the compensation would be propor¬ 
tionately very far below what it would have 
been five years ago. 

And five years from now, with a few more 
New Havens, Rock Islands, and other proofs 
of the fact that monopolies are owned chiefly 
by conscienceless thieves—you will see gov¬ 
ernment ownership on a basis of absolute raw 
competition, just as you have seen the gov¬ 
ernment parcel post competing with express 
companies. 

And no railroad man doubts for a minute 
what the competition of the government in the 
railroad business would mean to private rail¬ 
road property. 

Not a railroad share in the United States 
would be worth forty cents. 

The railroads would be worth about as 
much as the privately owned submarine cable 
under the English Channel was worth when 
the French and English governments decided 
to unite their publicly owned telegraph sys¬ 
tems by a publicly owned submarine cable un¬ 
der the channel. 


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The day that decision was reached, the pri¬ 
vately owned cable in the channel was worth 
exactly the price of rusty wire. 

If the government of the United States, ir¬ 
ritated by too many proofs of railroad and 
other financial dishonesty, decide to go into 
the railroad business for themselves, condemn¬ 
ing their own rights of way, competing with 
existing roads, the railroads of today will be 
worth exactly the value of so many streaks of 
rusty railroad track, and the question will be: 
“What will the wrecking companies give for 
our terminals, bridges and tracks to pull them 
down and sell them for old iron?” 

STOCK AND MEMBERSHIP 
CERTIFICATES 

Membership and stock certificates should 
be printed on high quality material, the same 
should have suitable emblems of peace upon 
them; a dove would be very appropriate. 

To possess membership and stock in this 
Peace League and system, will be a mark of 
manhood and Christian brotherhood. This 
stock should be made exempt from execution 
for debt, so that it could pass on down through 
the generations uninterrupted. 

The successful operation of this system 
may well be depended upon to completely 
eliminate saloons and the manufacture of 
whiskey; it will enfranchise women; it is an 
equilibrium of justice through and by which 
capital and labor will reach equity and politi¬ 
cal parties will cease to wrangle. 

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Under this new system these three types 
of Commercial Vampires will be eliminated 
(there are some good men in the wholesale 
business, nearly all of them, but the SYSTEM 
is wrong). Hereafter, the merchant will take 
his securities to the banks which are affiliated 
with this system and all funds necessary for 
the legitimate conduct of his business will be 
granted and he will buy through the brokerage 
department of this system, instead of through 
the wholesaler, thus enabling him to sell sup¬ 
plies to the people at from 20 to 50 per cent 
saving. 

Ho we need a new system ? It is now up to 
the administration to start this peace move¬ 
ment. 

POWER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE 
BANKS. 

We now have the very sinews of financial 
power vested in the present democratic ad¬ 
ministration and The Federal Reserve Board, 
with which this great movement for the abso¬ 
lute control of finance and commerce and for 
the achievement of World Peace can be 
started and successfully carried through. If 
the Federal Reserve Board would announce 
that it was willing and ready to make loans in 
all cities, towns and villages to merchants and 
manufacturers who would join this Peace 
Movement and buy peace stamps, or that they 
were equally ready to finance new merchants 
and industrial enterprises that would buy 
peace stamps for the purpose outlined in this 
plan, hundreds of thousands of merchants, 
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manufacturers and others would readily ac¬ 
cept such an offer. 

This is the very best and safest thing for 
the bulk of loans to be made for, until the 
United States government gains complete con¬ 
trol of finances and the big railroad systems. 
It is a very dangerous risk to loan money any 
more on railroad securities, while the present 
system permits such arrogant robbery to be 
committed upon stockholders as was perpe¬ 
trated upon the New Haven Railroad. Rail¬ 
road stocks may sell at 150 today to a gang of 
robbers who are seeking its control, then to¬ 
morrow it may not be worth 30 cents when 
such a gang have succeeded in acquiring con¬ 
trol, then with the plans adopted in the wreck¬ 
ing of the New Haven fresh before such 
thieves, whose money is safe when invested in 
any railroad stocks? What conservative 
banker or group of bankers will now consider 
railroad stocks as a safe collateral for loans ? 

Any banker or banks or group of banks 
making loans on such fickle stocks as Ameri¬ 
can Railroad securities, should be held per¬ 
sonally liable and criminally responsible for 
accepting any such securities. “They pass in 
a moment away” under our great modern sys¬ 
tem of “The big dog takes the bone.” This 
will force the railroads to come into this new 
system under government control. 

BEGIN NOW TO ORGANIZE LOCAL 
LEAGUES. 

Everything must have a beginning. This 
great system can be started in a little village, 
or a big city NOW. 


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Organize a local peace league with ten 
charter members, who’ll be first? Second? 
Next? Then all go to work getting 100 more 
members—when this is done, if your mer¬ 
chants refuse to join this Peace Movement, 
then organize a community owned store, each 
member taking $100.00 or more stock in same, 
paying as much as he can and giving notes for 
the balance. This, then, will be a strong char¬ 
acter firm which would be able to get all the 
goods needed from wholesale firms, and would 
also be able to borrow money from local banks 
or from The .Federal Reserve Bank, if the ad¬ 
ministration and Reserve Board will decide to 
encourage this great Peace Movement. 

These stores should be run on very safe and 
strict business plans, as safe as the banking 
business, requiring all store managers and 
sales people to execute bonds and requiring 
all people who run accounts of credit to put in 
pledge good notes well secured. 

All such stores would sell supplies to mem¬ 
bers of the company at very low prices, at a 
saving of 20 to 50%. This would encourage 
the organization of such stores, or would in¬ 
duce the present merchants to join this system 
readily. 

There are thousands, yes millions TOO 
MANY STORE BUILDINGS. One-fourth of 
the present store buildings is sufficient to 
serve the purposes for which they were con¬ 
structed, as will be demonstrated when this 
system is established; the people will trade at 
their own community stores. This will, then, 
mean that three-fourths of the present store 

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rooms will be useful, only, for storage barns 
and warerooms, and will only be worth from 
one-fourth to one-half of the original cost. In¬ 
vestments in this kind of property are, there¬ 
fore, as unsafe as are investments in Railroad 
stocks and bank stocks. 

The only way to establish stability of 
values in Banks, Railroads, Manufacturing, 
Merchandising and business buildings is 
through the establishing of this new system of 
commerce and finance. When the people of a 
community organize peace leagues and estab¬ 
lish community stores, it is reasonable to sup¬ 
pose that they will trade at their own store, 
first, because prices will be much lower; sec¬ 
ond, they will be encouraging this world Peace 
Movement. 

The only safe way for owners of store 
buildings and stores to pursue, is to take stock 
in this system to the extent of 10 per cent, or 
more, of the value of their buildings and 
stocks of merchandise, and affiliate themselves 
with this great new plan; otherwise their prop¬ 
erties will depreciate to a very serious extent. 
Who would want to buy a store house or stock 
of merchandise where the whole community 
owns a large store, which sells merchandise at 
the very lowest prices'? 

When one village or city starts this system, 
others will follow, then the larger towns and 
cities would fall in line rapidly. Each charter 
member should get $1.00 for each new member 
secured, and the local leagues should get a per¬ 
centage for organizing all stores and indus¬ 
trial companies. This is to be a remunerative, 
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money making business plan. Philanthropy 
and patriotism may remain in the background 
until selfish interest tries its hand at doing 
things. 

You may preach Christianity, Confucian¬ 
ism, Buddhaism, Mohammedism, and all 
other “isms” yet another thousand years. 
You may place before them pictures of 
wrecked lives, ruined homes, poverty, desola¬ 
tion, despair, famine, and yet, until the con¬ 
trol of finance and government is vested in the 
great masses of people, man will still be forced 
to face the cannon; selfish interest comes first 
in man—Justice later. Wars are brought onto 
humanity through selfish interest, and they 
can be stopped only through this same attri¬ 
bute of our nature. 

This system provides for the people to gov¬ 
ern and to make the enormous profits hereto¬ 
fore made by the capitalists and the assurance 
of Universal Peace—selfish interest is here 
satisfied. 

There are hundreds, thousands and mil¬ 
lions of dollars to be made by active workers 
in organizing local leagues, securing new mem¬ 
bers and organizing stores and industrial en¬ 
terprises for this system, all of which should 
pay the usual percentages for such service to 
the organizers and local leagues. This is 
purely a business proposition, but not all for 
monetary gain, safety and civilization are two 
things sought. 

When the women vote, all the great reform 
movements will be put into laws. When the 
labor unions, fraternal orders and all reform- 

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ers take a stand against the present rule of 
the capitalists, kings, emperors and selfish pol¬ 
iticians and begin organizing these local 
leagues, this movement will soon gain such 
power that all political parties will be over¬ 
whelmed by this peace party. 

If all people, fraternal orders, labor un¬ 
ions, women’s clubs and all would urge upon 
President Wilson and the Federal Reserve 
Board the great economic, social and national 
advantages and the great importance in every 
way to all the world in using the Federal Re¬ 
serve Banking system to establish this world 
Peace Movement, it will then be up to the 
President for him to recommend to congress. 

A COMMON ENEMY TO ALL MANKIND. 

If a lion should escape from the Zoo and 
come roaring through the streets, endangering 
the lives of your children, would it occur to 
you once in sounding the alarm of danger and 
calling for help that it was necessary or safe 
to limit your petition for help just to the 
Americans, Germans, French, Englishmen, 
Russians, Japanese, Chinese, or any particular 
nationality of men in the vicinity? Would you 
call only for all the men of your political or 
religious affiliations You have a common en¬ 
emy to all mankind, and in your extreme des¬ 
peration, you call for help FROM YOUR 
BROTHER MEN, and all very readily would 
come to your assistance; then, why not all 
mankind, in all nations respond to this call, 
which is going up from every nation and from 
every home (except these mad and loosened 

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s 


lions) the Kings, Emperors and financiers, for 
help! help! 

We have a great common life and property 
destroying system abroad in the world! HOW 
CAN WE become united to stop this terrible 
monster of death and destruction? Herein is 
supplied the plan to conquer the demon of war. 

Organize a local peace league in your little 
town or city. Then VOTE FOR NO MAN OR 
PARTY who is not firm for the creation of a 
PEACE DEPARTMENT OE GOVERN¬ 
MENT and for the CONTROL of FINANCE 
BY THE PEOPLE. YOUR VOTE IS YOUR 
WEAPON with which we can conquer this 
terrible enemy of man. 

Another common enemy abroad in the land 
is the “Ereeze-out Man,” who is the worst 
type of robber or thief known. HEED MY 
WARNING, YOU SHALL BITE THE 
DUST. The freeze-out man is not only a prop¬ 
erty thief—he is very much a worse kind of 
thief, he is a character thief. Through the 
process of slander and misrepresentation, he 
seeks and causes the downfall of a good man 
who may be his opponent for an office, or who 
may be a strong reform politician as was the 
case with Mr. Bryan, whom the capitalists 
dreaded, and by buying the rotten, salable 
kind of editors, they have slandered this great 
American statesman and kept him from the 
presidency of this nation, which he deserved. 

When this new system is established and 
the people are in control, all of these and all 
such men will be unable to do business or to 
obtain loans. They will be compelled to “bite 

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the dust” of humiliation. Their sins will find 
them out. The people will hiss and shun them, 
as they deserve. The day of arrogance, autoc¬ 
racy and snobbery is passing fast. Some very 
rich men will learn through actual experience 
that “God works in a mysterious way his 
wonders to perform” to a certainty. 

How can these heartless freeze-out men, 
who have wrecked the career and fortunes and 
homes of many people, hope to obtain business 
or financial assistance, when the people of 
their community come into control of finance 
and commerce ? All such men will be pointed 
to with scorn, as not being worthy of recogni¬ 
tion, and they will get the black ball. The 
people will fear to buy property from such 
men, or to have any business dealings with 
them from fear of incurring the disapproval 
of the local leagues, which will have power to 
act on loans and management of the affairs of 
men. This system will almost blot out from 
out court records all kinds of commercial 
crime. 

The modern freeze-out man is a very much 
worse robber than is the Jesse James kind, 
who robbed at the point of a gun. The freeze- 
out man will use every device of cunning, de¬ 
ceit, policy, diplomacy, then slander and mis¬ 
representation and false report, he will worry 
his victim for years, causing suicide, divorce, 
wrecked lives, ruined homes, poverty and ig¬ 
norance of the families of his victims. He is 
our very worst criminal. 

War will be abolished by establishing a 
system of equity between men and nations. 

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All nations must borrow money from this 
league. The present system of Finance and 
Commerce is radically wrong as is demon¬ 
strated by the recurrence of war between na¬ 
tions and disastrous strikes by the labor or¬ 
ganizations. 

It is wrong because of the great oppres¬ 
sion and injustice in the affairs of men. It is 
wrong, because it has been possible under it 
for a few men to acquire so much wealth that 
they have been proven guilty of causing war 
in order that they might gain concessions, 
which meant millions to them. 

WEALTH OF THE UNITED STATES. 

The total wealth of the United States is 
possible to record in figures, but is entirely be¬ 
yond the possible grasp of the human mind. 
$150,000,000,000.00!!! 

One Hundred and Fifty Billions of Dollars!!! 

Would it not be a good economic policy if 
the U. S. Government would AT ONCE open a 
NEW DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT 
by creating A FEDERAL PEACE DEPART¬ 
MENT, then start this new system of PEACE¬ 
ABLE WORLD GOVERNMENT by setting 
aside the very small part of the above ENOR¬ 
MOUS WEALTH as would be represented by 
sufficient capital to start and operate this svs- 
tem? 

Are we economists? If so, answer the 
above question. 

The annual outlay of the U. S. Govern¬ 
ment for the upkeep of the TAX AND 

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DEATH DEPARTMENT, the army and 
navy, reaches the stupendous sum of over 
$440,000,000.00!!! The total outlay by all na¬ 
tions is more than $4,000,000,000.00. 

This is the enormous cost, in money alone, 
not counting the loss of over 15,000,000 lives 
since 1700 A. D., for WRONG THINKING. 
If these governments would, each, ESTAB¬ 
LISH A PEACE DEPARTMENT and set 
aside for its operation, an equal amount, TO 
ONLY ONE YEAR’S OUTLAY for the sense¬ 
less uneconomic upkeep of these STUPEND¬ 
OUS ARMIES AND NAVIES, we will then 
be entitled to be classed among the future gen¬ 
erations of the world, who will truly be called 
the CIVILIZED Christian generations. 

A GOVERNMENT PEACE DEPARTMENT 

Should be created to replace the War De¬ 
partment, at no distant date. 

If the U. S. Government would create a 
Eederal Peace Department for the purposes 
of putting this Peace Movement into effect, 
then set aside one-half of the public lands in 
the possession of this government to this de¬ 
partment; issue acreage bonds against each 
quarter-section on a basis of the value of the 
land at present prices, the government could 
raise enough money at short notice by the sale 
of these bonds to start this peace system. All 
of the public land in the United States which 
is subject to homestead settlement should be 
put into this department, or it might best be 
divided, so that a part in each state or section 
would go to the main Federal Company, and a 
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part for the state and county organizations. 
Then, sell bonds and loan money to help all 
legitimate business, which wili buy peace 
stamps. This would readily give a capital of 
hundreds of millions, possibly billions of dol¬ 
lars, and would be so solid and safe that the 
world would know it was a conqueror. 

The organization of this system then 
should be aggressively pushed in all nations 
through the financial backing of this Federal 
Peace Fund. This would place this nation the 
dominant power of all the world. 

This will absolutely place the government 
in control of Finance, Insurance and Com¬ 
merce. This pl#n, will, in many ways, far ex¬ 
ceed letting these lands lay idle for genera¬ 
tions, doing no good to anyone, as they are 
now doing. This makes these dormant lands 
the basis for a capitalization that will estab¬ 
lish ,not only Universal Peace, but Universal 
Prosperity, contentment and happiness. The 
government and states could issue Peace De¬ 
partment Bonds with which to finance this 
system. If it takes a special session of Con¬ 
gress and the Senate to make a law to provide 
for this plan, then, it is the greatest thing for 
which a special session was ever called. 

PLAN FOR SELLING STOCK. 

The United States Steel Corporation, cap¬ 
italized at One Billion Dollars!!! was organ¬ 
ized in a few months by the firm of Morgan. 
It was a simple process of consolidation of 
large and small steel factories, rolling mills, 
mines and mineral lands, together with the 

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regular selling of stock to the public and em¬ 
ployees; on a similar basis, these three giant 
corporations can be launched. The Interna¬ 
tional Commercial Company should be capital¬ 
ized at not less than One Hundred Million Hol¬ 
lars. 

The Bank of Peace, if created by the bond¬ 
ing of federal lands, should be capitalized at 
$ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 . 00 . 

Politicians, in all parties, and financiers 
must lay aside selfishness, if we are to reach 
this great and grand goal for which man has 
longed and sought throughout the ages; they 
must accept the new for the old and inade¬ 
quate system; it will be safer and more per¬ 
manent in the end, so why not all be far¬ 
sighted and unselfish enough to see the light 
as is herein set out and declare for this new 
order of things, which will bring everlasting 
prosperity and Universal Peace in all nations. 

WE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN PEACE 
THROUGH THIS NEW EVOLUTION 
OF FINANCE AND GOVERN¬ 
MENT, OR CONTINUED RE¬ 
CURRENCE OF WARS. 

Who will sound the bugle call TO THE 
BALLOTS? TO THE BALLOTS! for Uni¬ 
versal Peace'? The people now demand a 
Peace Department in all nations and states 
to protect life and property. We are weak¬ 
lings to remain longer under governments that 
will permit war. We must march onward, out 
of the primitive forms of one man government, 
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with our lives and homes and property subject 
at any time to destruction from the fanatical 
decisions of a heartless, selfish King or Em¬ 
peror, who has been born of military parents 
and educated in military schools and associ¬ 
ated all his life with murderers, who study to 
kill and destroy, these are the army and navy 
captains, generals and admirals, A MON¬ 
STER BUNCH OF MURDERERS. 

Big guns, forts and battleships have 
proven a failure; the other nations build as we 
build; it only increases taxes and revolutions; 
alliances and ententes have proven only an¬ 
other form of u toting a pistol.” Big armies 
and monster navies have only served to un¬ 
balance the heads of murderous monarchs. 

AND WE ARE NOT SAFE. 

We cannot expect to always be so fortun¬ 
ate as to have so noble a President as Wood- 
row Wilson, one of the very greatest of all our 
presidents. We are subject to the usurpation 
of power by a traitor, who might accidentally 
become president, as experienced too often in 
our unfortunate sister, Republic of Mexico. 
We must have commission form of govern¬ 
ment to secure perfect safety and peace 
A WORLD PEACE CHAMPION WANT¬ 
ED in all states and nations. 

There are four American Statesmen who 
can, if united, stop war in all nations and for 
all time. These four men are: President Wil¬ 
son, Secretary of State Wm. J. Bryan Sena¬ 
tor Robert M. La Follette, and Ex-President 
Roosevelt. If these men would be satisfied 

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and contented with the honors already con¬ 
ferred upon them as leaders of their respec¬ 
tive political parties, and all four agree to 
bury politics forever, and throw all of their in¬ 
fluence into the creation of a commission form 
of government, with a Peace Department con¬ 
trolled by the great common people, as is 
planned in this system, thereby establishing a 
UNITY OF MAN FORM OF GOVERN¬ 
MENT, they can forever end war. 

How could these men perform a greater 
benefit for the whole world than to do this 
very thing? It lies in these men to accom¬ 
plish this great blessing for Humanity. Shall 
the world be disappointed yet for centuries 
and for thousands of years waiting, hoping, 
yet dying, and no peace? In no country on 
Earth is the political status just at such a 
point, with just such great men, all with such 
great good motives at heart, prompting them 
to do their best for humanity, as is the condi¬ 
tion right now in America. The world ex¬ 
pects great things of Americans. Great 
things are humanitarian deeds. These men 
are four of America’s greatest Statesmen. 
Shall the world be disappointed in them? No. 
Shall selfishness dominate them now? No. 
Shall patriotism claim their whole efforts? 
Yes. 

How can we expect that the warring rulers 
of Europe shall stop and listen to unselfish 
reason, if such great American Statesmen 
shall fail to lay down politics and selfishness 
forever and agree on this new plan for peace 
for all the world? If these four men would 


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acquiesce to the wailing appeals of every 
home, every father, every mother, every wife, 
every child, every religious and fraternal in¬ 
stitution in all nations, they will at once meet 
in conference (the greatest ever held) at the 
White House in Washington, reach an agree¬ 
ment for the creation of World Peace through 
the establishing of this new form of govern¬ 
ment by the people, the control of finance and 
commerce and the end of wars through this 
New World Peace Party. 

The power is conferred upon these four 
men to COMPROMISE POLITICS, which 
means to COMPROMISE WAR FOR ALL 
NATIONS AND FOR ALL TIME. This will 
be the greatest deeds of their lives, and the 
world would throughout all time proclaim 
these four men as the most unselfish, patriotic 
statesmen that ever lived. There will be 
needed three great men as Government Com¬ 
missioners. These great Banks and Commer¬ 
cial and Insurance Corporations must have 
great men at their heads. 

Why delay? Prompt action is imperative. 
Why not at once do the greatest thing that has 
ever been the blessed opportunity of four men 
to perform; call a conference, then urge an ar¬ 
mistice in Europe and save a million men. By 
establishing this Government of Peace, they 
will do the greatest thing possible to be done 
for all nations for all time. The world has 
longed for this opportunity, and these are the 
men great enough to make this Evolution pos¬ 
sible. 

The wrong conception of Government was 

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very unfortunately taken in the beginning of 
government, and for this, the carnage of war 
has been the price which the common people 
have had to pay. All history proves conclu¬ 
sively that no political party, nor set of states- 
ment or rulers, in any nation, has been able to 
establish a WAR FREE GOVERNMENT. 
The great wrangle and discontent constantly 
recurring in all nations from the injustice 
caused by the financiers, trusts, monopolists, 
combinations in commerce has proven that the 
original and antiquated present system of fi¬ 
nance and commerce were and are wrong. 
This, then, calls for the serious consideration 
by eminent statesmen and economists with 
the object of getting at the root of all evil, 
which is our money and trade systems, and 
knowing the cause of the error, then applying 
a real practical remedy, which is herein given 
to humanity. 

Six thousand years of rule by Kings, Em¬ 
perors and Financiers is sufficient; they have 
proven that they cannot rule. Now, the time 
has come when the great masses of humanity 
must rule. Politicians bury selfishness, bury 
politics forever, get out of the way of justice 
and say “Come on all Humanity; we will open 
the door of Justice; you shall now and forever 
rule.” 

The Press should urge these things of these 
four Statesmen at once. All people, all fra¬ 
ternal orders, all churches, all women’s clubs, 
all labor unions should write these men at once 
and urge them to this conference for the cre¬ 
ation of this World Peace System. 

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A Constitutional Amendment to suit this 
great change could be drafted and put to a 
vote at a special election at an early date. I 
believe that Woodrow Wilson is great enough 
to surrender the remainder of his term to the 
Commission Form of Government for the pur¬ 
pose of creating World Peace. We shall hope 
for all this. 

A grand opportunity presents itself to a 
great champion of Universal Peace in each 
state and nation. This is the greatest, grand¬ 
est, noblest cause open for great leaders to es¬ 
pouse with a vim, determination and convic¬ 
tion. 

THIS CAUSE WILL MEET WITH THE 
GREATEST FOLLOWING OF ANY THAT 
HAS BEEN ESPOUSED BY ANY OF THE 
WORLD’S LEADERS IN A THOUSAND 
YEARS. 

Why not a Federal Peace Department? 

Our government is very vigilant in its fight 
against Cholera, Yellow Fever, Smallpox, Tu¬ 
berculosis, and other plagues which kill men. 
It is vigilant in its fight against diseases that 
destroy our live-stock. It is very active in 
protectng our farm products from the ravages 
of vermin and diseases peculiar to plant life. 

The mystery of it is, why has not this great 
American Government and all other free re¬ 
publics a Peace Department? This depart¬ 
ment, if established to operate on the plans 
herein set out, will prove the greatest depart¬ 
ment of the nation, aside from the administra¬ 
tion. It is the department of government eco¬ 
nomies. It is the department that will evolu- 

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tionize our tax system. This is the life-saving 
department, which will save more lives than 
all the health departments and life-saving sta¬ 
tions, many times over. 

We spend millions to check torrents of the 
great Mississippi and other rivers, yet we have 
neglected to make any safeguard against the 
greatest destroyer of both property and lives 
of them all, greater than all other destroying 
factors combined—this is war! The terror of 
mankind. 

STATE PEACE DEPARTMENTS. 

All states should also take prompt action 
toward creating a Peace Department of state 
government on a similar plan to co-operate 
with the Federal. 

Man is studying and searching for new and 
better inventions with which our affairs may 
be performed in a better, easier and more eco¬ 
nomical manner. We must accept new meth¬ 
ods, the world demands it. 

If this new system is promptty accepted by 
the bankers of the Nation, and their strong co¬ 
operation offered in operating this system, it 
will mean the greatest possible advantage to 
them, but of they resist it as has been the prac¬ 
tice of capitalists in the past, it will mean the 
complete liquidation of the affairs of the 
American Banker and a panic and stagnation 
in values of bank stock will come on in a 
hurry. 

This new invention has been made, it is 
what the world has been hunting for, and the 
people cannot be stopped—this system will 
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survive. Politicians in all parties must sub¬ 
mit to this new system of things. 

A new and powerful party will spring into 
existence in the United States and other na¬ 
tions, if the present administrations fail to do 
their duty promptly to humanity by creating 
a new department—The Department of Peace. 

It is dangerous to all nations for any coun¬ 
try to be ruled by Kings or Emperors—they 
have shown their weakness. There is a great 
weakness in too much power, because men are 
weak and cannot stand only a certain limit, as 
has been demonstrated by the Emperor of 
Germany losing his head over his great desire 
to rule all Europe and then all the World, as 
the Romans did. Being drunk with militar¬ 
ism, he has brought on the crime of all ages. 
The people will revolt when the breaking point 
is reached, and then right will out. Why don’t 
these war dogs study human nature and read 
history more? All empires and kingdoms 
have reached their zenith, and must, very soon, 
give way to the rule of the people, by the peo¬ 
ple, and for the people through this" new evo¬ 
lution of finance and commerce. 

There will not be a Kingdom or Empire on 
the globe of any consequence by the year 1925. 
This new system will transform our present 
war departments from a burdensome, tax pro¬ 
ducing monster to the Federal Peace Depart¬ 
ment, which will produce more revenue than 
our government will need, as we will not have 
taxes for army and navy to pay. This is real 
evolution. 

This system will turn forty million or more 

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soldiers and sailors free to become producers 
and home builders. This system will make our 
country and the world a continuous, prosper¬ 
ous field of commerce and industry. 

The rich men and old men should be the 
idle men of the earth, and the young and 
strong should be permitted to do the business 
and labor which they are anxious, willing and 
able physically to do, if the means are fur¬ 
nished by which they can do business and 
labor. The rich and old should buy these 
bonds, and thereby enable the young and 
strong to escape the army of the unemployed, 
build homes and become producers of wealth 
in the nation. 

EVOLUTION OF THOUGHTS OF WAR. 

War is the greatest cause of atheism. 
Men’s way of thinking of war and the pro¬ 
moters and executors of it will be so evolution- 
ized that they will talk and write of such finan¬ 
ciers who profit by war; of Kings and Emper¬ 
ors who bring it upon humanity; of the execu¬ 
tors of it, the captains, generals, colonels and 
admirals as a gang of heartless, bloodthirsty 
murderers and robbers, who do no good by liv¬ 
ing, but live to destroy and tear down that 
which both God and man have built, viz: Man¬ 
hood and homes, murderers and robbers will 
be applied to such men hereafter; these noble 
words, “Glory and Honor,” are very much out 
of place when utilized in writing the history of 
any such demons of earth. 

The real brave are those who risk their 
lives to SAVE A LIFE, but not those, who 

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through passion or selfish motives risk their 
lives trying to take the lives of others. No 
more honor will be sung of war-dogs, but in¬ 
stead the greatest dishonor, which will crush 
the ambition for conquest, which is now im¬ 
bued into men's way of thinking. Militarism 
should be defined as the mental war disease. 

This evolution of men’s thoughts will re¬ 
place, instead, a nobler and grander ambition, 
which will be for the establishing of an ideal 
Utopian Government in every nation with the 
snow white flag of peace and prosperity float¬ 
ing on her ships of commerce, instead of red 
flags or war and desolation. Teach Perpetual 
Universal Peace, Prosperity, Happiness and 
all the noble achievements of life to the young 
men, instead of the tactics of savage, barbar¬ 
ous militarism. Disputes between nations 
should be settled by an international court of 
arbitration, the same as between individuals. 

. THE UNITED STATES OP EUROPE. 

This will be the inevitable outcome of the 
present 1914 European conflict. 

They are all afraid to trust each other any 
more, which will cause the Republic of Europe 
to be organized and thereby prevent this con¬ 
stant recurrence of war. “Uneasy lies the 
head that wears a crown,’’ but much more so 
lies the heads of the millions of subjects of 
many hot-headed, bigotted, selfish, tyrannical 
rulers. None of the European nations, which 
will be parties to the final settlement following 
the terrible war now in progress, should ever 
consent to any other kind of settlement than 
that all Europe be made a great commission 

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governed republic. Each of the present rulers 
could be made one of the commissioners. 

The ultimate outcome of this awful con¬ 
flict, after a million of men shall have perished 
on the savage battlefield, and all the contest¬ 
ing nations reduced to ruin, desolation and 
bankruptcy, will be the United States of 
Europe. 

This system of Evolution is, to the nations 
of the earth, a NEW “HAND-WRITING ON 
THE WALL.” It means a transformation 
from the tried-and-tested-and-found-wanting 
present systems, to the new and perfect Uto¬ 
pian form of Government for all nations. 

If a settlement of this embroglio should, by 
great misfortune, be reached whereby the 
present rulers shall continue to rule, it will 
only be postponing the just rights of the peo¬ 
ple, which is—a free republic. It will only 
mean that revolutions will occur in all nations 
until the people shall rule. 

It is men’s nature to revolt, when ruled by 
an oppressor. Does not history repeat this 
again and again? The government may drift 
along for many years by accidentally having 
a good ruler, but then there will be an heir to 
the throne, such as the present ruler of Ger¬ 
many, who will be so impregnated with the 
war spirit that he will plunge nations into sim¬ 
ilar wars of conquest, as has this bigotted, ar¬ 
rogant, monster murderer of Germany, who 
deserves not a word of praise in history, but 
instead, the strongest condemnation. 

When the Kings and Emperors are gloat¬ 
ing with arrogance and drunken with power 
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and militarism, forgetful of justice, begin 
heaping oppression upon the people, THEN 
IS THE TIME OF HANGER! 

Men will revolt and die when the liipit of 
oppression and injustice have been forced 
upon them. 

May the God of men give us more of this 
spirit, tempered with Judgment, so that all 
men, as a unit, in all nations may at one solid 
and determined blow, strike the final blow of 
revolt through the ballot at the one-man-rule 
of Kings and Emperors. This can be done 
peaceably without bloodshed through the bal¬ 
lot, and this system of Evolution of finance, 
commerce and government by the people. 

DEMAND WITH YOUR BALLOT A 
PEACE DEPARTMENT IN ALL GOVERN¬ 
MENTS and states. Write your congress¬ 
men, Senator and President, urging this at 
once. 

UNITY OP MAN. 

This new government by the people will 
bring about the unity of man. “ Peace on 
earth and good-will to men.” 

IN COMMEMORATION. 

In due commemoration of this, the great¬ 
est and grandest achievement of man, Univer¬ 
sal Peace, there should be constructed the 
most magnificent monument which the com¬ 
bined ingenuity of the world's most expret en¬ 
gineers can invent and design. Here is a sug¬ 
gestion for this great pile of marble, copper 
and steel. 


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This should not he alone a monument, but 
it should be, as well, a thing of surpassing 
beauty and utility. I would suggest that it in 
the main be made one story high for each na¬ 
tion, which will contribute one million dollars 
or more for the purpose of building and decor¬ 
ating this story, which would be occupied by 
and named for that nation. 

The space occupied by this building should 
be very great, so that immense gatherings of 
people could be accommodated on each floor. 
There should be in the lower department an 
amphitheatre for great gatherings, which 
would eclipse in magnitude and architecture 
any of the ancient structures. This would be 
the Theatre of Nations. 

There should be a great and grand court 
with promenade verandas, wide and long, in 
the middle of which the great tower will stand 
2000 feet or more, and on the top the Great 
Peace Flag showing the colors of all nations 
united. 

Many elevators. 

Magnificent Restaurants. 

Private apartments for the representa¬ 
tives of the nations. 

Roof Gardens, the greatest observatory 
on earth. 

There should be marble, steel and copper 
from every nation in each story, and wood in 
the furnishings from every nation. There 
should be a botanical park with every known 
species of timber, herb, flower and grass on 
earth. There should be one of the world’s 
greatest zoological gardens in which will be 
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exhibited every known kind and variety of 
animal, bird and fish. 

There should be represented here in all its 
graudest arrays and costumes every known 
species of the human race in The Theatre of 
Nations. The different kinds of the world’s 
many modes of worship should be exhibited, 
permanently, together with exhibits of modes 
of life and living in the different nations. 

God in his far-seeing wisdom created a 
place for all things and surely he has created 
a place where more forms of life will thrive 
than in other places; surely he has created a 
place which is, by nature endowed with more 
suitable environments, with an equable cli¬ 
mate, a life-giving balmy air, that will add to 
these great achievements of man. He has 
such a place. This place is in the Great State 
of California, Los Angeles, which will be 
called the City of Peace, “The Home of the 
Angeles.” 

The great bank of Nations should be 
located on the ground floor of this Peace 
Palace, as should also the great Theatre of 
Nations. 

DECORATIONS 

An endless chain of appropriate design, 
and made of pure gold with a link for every 
nation with the names of the nations en¬ 
graved on the links, should be a part of the 
decoration of the interior. 

Each nation should have a Hall of Fame 
for statues of their most famous men; but 

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those who gained fame solely through the 
process of war should not be represented. 

Flowers of all nations of every known 
variety should be artistically arranged in the 
same beds and parks. The flowers should be 
planted in emblematic beds, some of which 
should read “Universal Peace;” others should 
represent a dove; others should represent all 
the colors in the great Universal Peace Flag; 
others the colors of the seperate nations. 


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From Editorial Column, Los Angeles Ex¬ 
aminer, September 4, 1914. 

THE COST OF KINGS 


Add to the Recognized Expense of Maintain¬ 
ing Useless Royalty, the Fearful Cost 
in Blood and Treasure of this 
Needless War 


The war in horrifying progress in Europe 
is, in reality, that most dreadful of all wars— 
a civil war. 

It is a war between states which should 
be living in peace and amity, in co-operative 
effort, in intellectual and material progress, 
and even in governmental accord, as “the 
United States of Europe.” 

It is a war between a large proportion of 
the civilized nations of the world in which 
human progress will be halted and civiliza¬ 
tion itself threatened. 

It is a war in which the proportion of 
civilized human beings on the planet will 
be greatly reduced, and the contribution to 
human progress of those innumerable units 
irretrievably lost. 

It is a war in which the accumulated 
treasure of, centuries are being destroyed 
treasures not merely of money, but of art 
and architecture which can never be replaced, 
and whose refining and elevating and civiliz¬ 
ing influence will forever be ended in the 
world. 


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The disaster of this war, therefore, is not 
merely a local disaster. It is a worldwide 
disaster. It is a disaster to the civilization 
of which we Americans are a part. It is a 
destruction of the heritage of civilization of 
which we Americans are part possessor. 

It means a diminution of the number and 
a weakening of the power in the world of the 
white nations, of the Occidental nations, of 
which we are one. 

It means an assault upon the standards, 
the ideals, the conditions of life, which have 
been the contribution of those Occidental 
nations to the civilization of the world— 
which, indeed, have constituted the civiliza¬ 
tion of the modern world. 

It means a corresponding strengthening 
of Oriental aims, ideals and ambitions. It 
tends to make possible an eventual triumph 
of ideals and conditions wholly foreign and 
offensive to our own. 

ONE nation allied with Orientals is ac¬ 
tually importing Orientals on to the scene of 
this conflict to show them how they may 
meet and possibly defeat Occidentals in 
modern warfare—a lesson which will be 
readily learned and ever remembered. 

Another nation is as recklessly destroy¬ 
ing priceless heirlooms of art and architect 
ture to penalize a prostrate foe, without con¬ 
flicting upon the whole civilized community 
of which its own people are a notable part. 

No one nation is to be blamed more than 
another for these illimitable dangers and 
disasters, but all are to be condemned for 
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having invited and instituted so cruel and 
fearful a conflict. In the judgment of pos¬ 
terity surely all will be held responsible for 
the infinite injury of this war, recklessly and 
unreasonably inflicted upon humanity, and 
upon human progress. 

But while the nations engaged in this in¬ 
ternecine struggle will be and must be held 
responsible for the endless and needless dis¬ 
aster incurred, the people themselves of the 
several nations can hardly be held account¬ 
able. 

The war is indeed convincing and dis¬ 
tressing proof that the veneer of civilization 
lies but thinly upon all so-called civilized be¬ 
ings, that civilization herself sits but inse¬ 
curely upon her throne, liable at any time 
to rude displacement by original savagery. 

Yet the people themselves, under strictly 
modern forms of government, would probably 
never have become involved in this war. 

The war is attributable to the survival in 
Europe of mediaeval institutions long out¬ 
grown by modern society; to the prosecution 
of imperial policies in the selfish interest of 
greedy hereditary dynasties. 

It is a war of the Middle Ages, caused by 
those conditions of the Middle Ages, mon¬ 
archic and aristrocratic, which still persist 
in Europe, as long as they persist, will re¬ 
press popular development and dominate 
popular sentiment. 

THIS is a war of kings, brought on by 
the assasination of a King’s nephew, who is 
of no more actual importance to modern 
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society than the nephew of any other indi¬ 
vidual, citizen or subject, in all Europe. 

Born of mediaeval misconception of the 
importance of royalty, this war has speedily 
become a war of inherited mediaeval tradi¬ 
tions of imperial greed and glory. 

But the glory of war is fading fast. The 
people of the world are no longer children, 
who delight in destruction and exalt the 
destroyers. 

In the histories of more enlightened ages, 
the rulers responsible for this war will not 
be described as heroes, but as homicidal 
maniacs, as traitors to the sacred trust 
solemnly imposed upon them to promote the 
happiness and protect the lives of their 
people. There is no glory in robbery, and 
war is but organized, authorized piracy and 
manslaughter. 

No country points with pride to a citizen 
who shoots down another in the heat of hatred 
or in the passion of jealousy. 

No country exalts as a hero a man who 
holds up another at the muzzle of a gun and 
takes his watch and pocketbook from him 
as “ indemnity. ” 

No country applauds and approves the 
man in the night and from mean motives of 
revenge destroys a tenement with a bomb, 
killing and maiming innocent women and 
children. 

In modern society men such as these are 
regarded as criminals and punished for their 
crimes by imprisonment or execution. 

A crime is not modified by its magnitude. 

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If a man who shoots another is a mur¬ 
derer, the rulers who cause the shooting of a 
million men are a million times more guilty 
murderers. 

If a man who robs another of a few dol¬ 
lars by force of arms is a thief, the rulers 
who rob cities and nations of millions in 
money by force of arms are exactly that 
much greater thieves. 

If the man who destroys a tenement and 
endangers the lives therein is a criminal, the 
rulers who wantonly destroy cities, the price¬ 
less treasures of cities and the lives of un¬ 
offending citizens, to satisfy a savage re¬ 
venge, are a thousand times greater crimi¬ 
nals. 

If the small criminal is to he punished by 
imprisonment or execution, then surely the 
fitting place for the greater criminal is not 
a palace or a throne, but a prison cell or a 
scaffold. 

Is this anarchy? 

No, it is abstract justice, seldom seen, and 
therefore seldom recognized. 

We all deplore anarchy. Then let us de¬ 
plore the things which make for anarchy. 

We all denounce the anarchist who kills 
^ King. Then let us denounce the royal 
anarchists who in cold blood and in snug 
safety murder a million fellow men intrusted 
to their protecting care. 

Time will be when society will include 
nations within its organization, when united 
navies will patrol the seas in the interest of 
peace and united armies will police the land. 

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Then any ruler who disturbs the peace 
will be arrested and jailed and any King “by 
the grace of God” who commits, inspires or 
instigates murder will be duly and properly 
hanged. 

Heaven speed that happy day! 

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. 


WHY WAR ? 

. (By permission of Dr. Frank Crane) 

Reduce this war business to its lowest 
term. 

Sift it by common sense. And what is 
the gist of it? 

Why, this: Nations go to war' for the 
same reason boys fight — because they are 
childish, lack self-control, and have not yet 
grown up enough to know that disputes can¬ 
not be settled by brute force. They have not 
learned law. 

Or for the same reason gunmen, or 
savages, or wild Westerners fight—because 
they are used to carrying deadly weapons. 

Or for the same reason gentlemen used to 
duel — because they are vain, selfish and 
sensitive, and have diseased notions of 
“honor.” 

The war passions are vanity, egotism, 
love of display, love of violence, and race 
hatred. Each of these sentiments is low, 
vicious unreasoning and semi-civilized. 

The war spirit is the combined barbarity 
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of the population. It is a million hates 
unified into a huge hate conflagration. 

There is nothing grand about it but the 
brass bands and uniforms. 

The reason it is inspiring is that only in 
war the people enjoy that exhilaration that 
comes from perfect organization and team 
play, which if they would manifest them in 
their daily business of creating values—a 
divine business—they would love quite as 
much as when they manifest them in the 
devil’s business of destruction. 

Another reason for war is that by in¬ 
flaming “patriotism” the rulers cause the 
workers to forget their rights; old, moribund, 
monarchic ideas are given a new lease of life; 
absolutism seems still necessary, and the 
mind of the world is diverted from democracy 
and turned back to autocracy. 

War is the favorite last resort of such 
men as the czar of Russia and the emperor 
of Germany and their entourage, because by 
war dangers and war needs socialism, libera- 
hsm, and all movements toward the abolition 
of privilege are repressed. 

Any misunderstanding between Austria 
and Servia, or between any one country and 
another, could be easily arranged if the rulers 
would get together, talk it over, and decide 
the matter on principles of fair play and 
equity. 

No two nations would go to war if the 
interests of the people were considered. They 
plunge into carnage simply because they con- 
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sider the interests of a class, the nobles, the 
army officers, or the ruling house. 

War simply means the incapacity of the 
rulers. It is time those ruling classes who 
make war, and perpetually prepare for war, 
were set aside. 

The people have nothing to gain and 
everything to lose by great armies and navies, 
whether maintained in the idleness of peace 
or in the destructiveness of hostilities. 

(L. A. Express, Aug. 22, 1914.) 


(Prom the Los Angeles Evening Herald.) 

SHALL NOT THOSE SUFFER BE ENTI¬ 
TLED TO SUFFRAGE? 

War should not make us forget all other 
things. Especially it should not cause us to 
forget the women whose patient suffering and 
care have brought to manhood the millions of 
men now engaged in fighting each other. 

A man murdered in war means a material 
loss to the nation. To some woman it means 
infinitely more. 

What have the men of Europe and of this 
country to say now to the women who ask that 
they be permitted to vote, that they be per¬ 
mitted to have some share in the making of 
laws and the selection of rulers that DECIDE 
UPON WAR OR PEACE ? 

How many times have men said to women, 
“How can you expect to vote when you can¬ 
not go to war and fight like menV y 

Well might the women say to the men, 
“You are right. We do not want to go to war. 

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But we suffer as you do not suffer when war 
comes. 

“We suffer in our bodies when we bear the 
child, we suffer in our hearts when our Sons 
are killed, and we suffer with humanity at the 
sight of the horrible crime against civiliza¬ 
tion called war. 

“We do not go to war. But should we, 
therefore, have no right to say whether or not 
war shall come ? 

“You do not find us in the front line with 
a bayonet. No; but you find us with the dead 
and wounded. 

“And you find our dead bodies with the 
Red Cross on our arms, where we have been 
shot down doing our duty. 

“When you finish killing each other, will 
you not listen to us? 

“Or will you again say, ‘You are our in¬ 
feriors, because you do not fight—you must 
not vote because you cannot cut throats as we 
can’?” 


PEACE REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE 

There are 126 references in the Bible and 
New Testament to Peace: 

Get your Bible and refer to these passages 
of scripture, then decide whether we are sav¬ 
ages or civilizd Christian nations. 

Here they are: 

Jeremiah 29:7; I Timothy 2:2; Leviticus 
26:6; I Kings 2:33; 4:24; II Kings 20:19; Pro- 

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verbs 16:7; Jeremiah 14:13; Matthew 5:9; 
Romans 12:18; 14:19; II Timothy 2:22; I Peter 
3:11; Acts 10:36; Romans 8:6; I Thessalonians 
5:23; II Thessalonians 3:16; Revelation 1:4; 
Zechariah 9:10; Ephesians 3; Galations 5:22; 
Luke 2:14; Luke 19:30; II Kings 9:31; Isaiah 
48:22; Romans 3:17; Jeremiah 12:12; Psalms 
29:11; 125: 5; 128:6; 147:14; Galations 6:16; 
Ephesians 6:23; Hebrews 7:2; Isaiah 9:6; Gen¬ 
esis 28:21; Genesis 41:16; Nehemiah 6:26; 
25:12; Deuteronomy 29:19; I Psalms 25:6; 
Luke 10:5; II Kings 9:19; Job 22:21; Psalms 
4:8; 7:4; 34:14; 37:37; 72:3; 85:8; 122:6; Eccle¬ 
siastes 3:8; Isaiah 26:3; 32:17; 45:7; 48:18; 
57:21; 52:7; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 53:5; 59:8; 
Jeremiah 6:14; 8:11; 8:15; 14:19; Ezekiel 7:25; 
Daniel 4:1; 6:25; I Peter 1:2; II Peter 1:2; 
Judges 2; Matthew 10:13; 10:34; Luke 12:51; 
Mark 9:50; Luke 1:79; 10:42; 24:36; John 
20:19; 14:27; 16:33; Romans 1:7; I Corinthians 
1:3; H Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:3; Ephe¬ 
sians 1:2; Philemon 1:2; Romans 5:1; 10:15; 
Ephesians 6:15; Romans 14:17; 15:33; 16:20; 
II Corinthians 13:11; Philemon 4:9; Hebrews 
13:20; I Corinthians 7:15; II Corinthians 
13:11; Ephesians 2:14; 4:3; Philemon 4:7; Co- 
lossians 1:2; Thessalonians 1:1; n Thessalon¬ 
ians 1:2; I Timothy 1:2; II Timothy 1:2; Titus 
1:4; Philemon 3; II John 3; Colossians 3:15; 
I Thessalonians 5:13; Hebrews 12:14; Joshua 
2:16; 3:18; H Peter 3:14; Exodus 20:24; 24:5; 
Leviticus 3:6; 7:11; 19:5; Isaiah 32:18; I Tim¬ 
othy 2:2; Hebrews 12:11; Joshua 3:17; Gene¬ 
sis 37:4; Matthew 5:9. 


63 


(From the Kansas City Star) 

HERE YOU HAVE THE A, B, C OF THE 
WAR 

What was the beginning of the present 
trouble in Europe? 

The makings of trouble have existed for 
years in the rivalries of the Germanic people 
and the Slavs—particularly in the ambition 
of Austria to prevent the formation of a strong 
Slavic state in the Balkin peninsula, and to 
extend its own power there. 

Did a similar threatening situation ever 
arise before? 

Yes, almost exactly the same situation 
arose in 1909, but war was averted chiefly be¬ 
cause Russia had not recovered from the war 
with Japan in 1905. 

What were the circumstances of 1909 ? 

After Russia had beaten Turkey in the 
70s, two Servian provinces, Bosnia and Her¬ 
zegovina, were taken from Turkey by the 
powers at the Congress of Berlin and handed 
over to Austria, not to own, but to administer. 
Servia hoped some day to form a union with 
them. In 1908 Austria unexpectedly an¬ 
nounced the annexation of these two pro¬ 
vinces. Servia protested and was supported 
by Russia, which disliked to see Austrian 
power increased. In March 1909, the kaiser 
abruptly notified the czar that if Russia fought 
Austria it would have Germany to fight. Rus¬ 
sia had not sufficiently recovered from the 
Japanese campaign to risk a war, and so 
yielded. Under similar circumstances in 1914 
Russia refused to yield and war followed. 

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What were the circumstances of 1914? 

June 29 the Austrian crown prince and his 
wife were assassinated by Bosnian Serbs. The 
Vienna newspapers at once began to urge war 
with Servia on the ground that the Servians 
were constantly plotting against Austria and 
stirring up trouble among the Slavic peoples 
in the Austrian empire. Servian defenders 
replied that the discontent among Austrian 
Slavs was due to harsh treatment by Austria. 

How did the war actually begin? 

Austria sent Servia an ultimatum on July 
23, in the harshest language, demanding an in¬ 
quiry by Austrian commissions in Servia into 
Servian plots against Austria, and the punish¬ 
ment of offenders. The language used made it 
impossible to doubt that Austria meant war. 

What did Servia reply? 

It replied July 25 that it would undertake 
the fullest investigation and promised punish¬ 
ment of all offenders. But it refused to per¬ 
mit Austria to send officials into Servia to in¬ 
vestigate. 

What happened then? 

Austria replied that the Servian note was 
“dishonest” and that war would be waged on 
Servia. 

What did the other powers do? 

July 28 the Russian government issued a 
note to the powers that it would not permit 
Servia to be invaded without remonstrance. 
Russian mobilization was ordered the same 
day. (The Russian position toward the Bal¬ 
kan Slavic states is something like that of the 
United States toward Latin America under the 
65 

6 


Monroe Doctrine; this government would not 
permit Mexico to be invaded by a European 
power.) Italy, a member of the triple alliance 
of Germany, Austria and Italy, declared that 
it had known nothing of Austrian intentions. 
The German foreign office admitted it had 
known the “ scope ” of the Austrian ultima¬ 
tum, but had not approved the violent lan¬ 
guage. England at once began working stren¬ 
uously for peace. 

What peace efforts did England make? 

It proposed to Germany, France and Italy 
that they unite with England in calling a 
European conference at London to settle the 
differences between Austria and Russia. 

What were the replies? 

Italy and France approved. Austria an¬ 
nounced that it would not cease its war move¬ 
ments pending any conference, and Germany 
announced that as the conference was distaste¬ 
ful to its ally, Austria, it would not take part. 
That ended the conference plan. 

What further efforts for peace were made? 

On July 30 the kaiser asked the czar to cease 
mobilizing pending plans for mediation. The 
next day the czar replied, thanking the kaiser 
“from my heart for thy mediation, which 
leaves a gleam of hope.” He promised that 
the troops should not be used pending negotia¬ 
tions, but in view of Austrian mobilization he 
could not discontinue Russian military prepar¬ 
ations. The kaiser wired back that the only 
hope for peace was for Russia to 4 ‘ discontinue 
her military measures which threaten Ger¬ 
many and Austria. ” On August 1 the German 
66 


government asked Austria to 6 6 continue to ex¬ 
change views with St. Petersburg.” But the 
same day Germany declared war against Rus¬ 
sia. 

How did Prance get in'? 

Prance is the ally of Russia, and Germany, 
expecting trouble in that quarter, began mob¬ 
ilizing on the French frontier. On August 1 
Prance announced that the German mobiliza¬ 
tion would compel French mobilization. Ger¬ 
many at once demanded that France declare 
its intentions, and Prance replied that it must 
“consult its own interests.” The next day 
Germany moved troops into the neutral coun¬ 
tries of Luxemburg and Belgium, and scouting 
parties were reported across the French bor¬ 
der. The next day Germany declared war on 
Prance. 

What about Belgium? 

Belgium has twice been declared neutral 
territory by a concert of European powers, in¬ 
cluding Prussia. Its neutrality was not vio¬ 
lated in the Pranco-Prussian war. When the 
German troops moved across Belgium against 
France at the beginning of August, Belgium 
protested and began to fight. So August 4 
Germany declared war on Belgium. 

What was the interest of England? 

England has had a friendly understanding 
—known under the French name of 66 entente,” 
pronounced “antaant”—with Russia and 
Prance for several years. This was not a 
formal alliance, but merely bound the govern¬ 
ments in an emergency to consult each other. 
It did not bring England into the present war. 

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The immediate reason given was the violation 
of Belgium neutrality by Germany. But the 
real reason was deeper. 

What was the real reason of England’s 
fighting Germany? 

The commercial rivalry of the two nations, 
particularly in colonial possessions, was a con¬ 
tributing factor. But the immediate reason 
was England’s feeling that the crushing of 
France by Germany would lead to an exten¬ 
sion of the German coast line on the North 
Sea, and the presence just across the channel 
of a great and hostile military power, which 
would menace England’s security. So August 
4 England declared war on Germany and at 
about the same time the German government 
handed the British ambassador at Berlin his 
passports. 

What is the position of Italy? 

Italy is bound by its alliance with Germany 
and Austria to help those powers in a defen¬ 
sive war. Italy takes the ground that this is 
an offensive war by them, and therefore is 
seeking to remain neutral. But Itallian in¬ 
terests clash with Austria’s in the Balkan pen¬ 
insula, and so Italian sympathy is with France, 
Russia and England. 


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HERE IS THE STRENGTH OF THE 
NATIONS AT WAR 

Annies 

Germany .5,200,000 France .4,000,000 

Austria . 2,000,000 Russia . 5,500,000 

- England .*730,000 

Total men.7,200,000 Belgium . 222,000 

Servia —-. 300,000 

Montenegro . 150,000 


Total men.-10,902,000 


•May be greatly increased by 
volunteers and colonial forces. 

Navies 

Dreadnaughts and First-class 'Smaller 

Cruiser Battleships Cruisers Craft Personnel 


Germany . 26 9 290 176,783 

Austria . 4 3 107 17,500 


Totals.— 30 12 397 194,233 

France . 17 18 384 60,621 

Russia . 13 6 201 52,463 

England .- 39 42 488 163,700 


Totals.. 69 66 1,073 276,784 

Aviation Forces 

Dirigible 

Pilots Aeroplanes Dirigibles Pilots 

Germany .335 500 40 931 

Austria -.. 84 222 10 110 


France —.966 550 30 287 

England .376 250 7 43 

Belgium . 58 150 3 2 

Russia .162 315 15 5 


Totals.1,562 1,265 55 332 

Approximate Population and Wealth of 
Leading Nations at War 

Germany .-. 65,000,000 $60,500,000,000 

Austria . 51,500,000 25,000,000,000 


Total.-.116,500,000 $85,500,000,000 

Great Britain . 45,500,000 $80,000,000,000 

France . 40,000,000 65,000,000,000 

Russia —.171,000,000 40,000,000,000 

Belgium . 7,500,000 9,000,000,000 


Total..264,000,000 $194,000,000,000 


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THE WORLD’S ANNUAL ARMAMENT BILL 


Great Britain and the Continent of Europe 



Fiscal 

Expended 

Country 

Year 

for Army 

Austria-Hungary.1911 

$ 73,513,000 

Belgium . 

.1911 

11,987,000 

Bulgarie. 

.1911 

7,928,000 

Denmark . 

.1911-12 

6,053,000 

France . 

.1911 

*187,632,000 

Germany. 

.1911-12 

203,938,000 

Great Britain 

.1910-11 

138,800,000 

Greece . 

.1911 

4,262,000 

Italy . 

.1911-12 

f81,033,000 

Montenegro ... 

.1911 

38,000 

Netherlands ... 

.1912 

12,120,000 

Norway . 

.1910-11 

3,798,000 

Portugal . 

.1910-11 

8,592,999 

Romania —-. 

.1911-12 

13,856,000 

Russia . 

.1911 

265,642,000 

Servia . 

.1911 

5,402,000 

Spain . 

.1911 

37,671,000 

Sweden . 

.1912 

15,314,000 

Turkey . 

.1911-12 

42,071,000 

Total (Great Britain 


and the 

Continent. 

.$1,128,435,000 : 

United States- 

.1910-11 

$162,357,000 : 

Japan . 

.1911-12 

49,196,000 

British India - 

.1910-11 

100,099,000 


Mexico and South A 

Argentine . 

.1911 

$10,583,000 

Brazil . 

.1911 

24,520,000 

Chili . 

.1910 

9,852,000 

Colombia . 

.1911 


Ecuador . 

.1909 


Mexico . 

.1911-12 


Peru .. 

.1910 


Uruguay . 

.1910 


Venezuela . 

.1910-11 



Expended 
for Navy 


$ 13,731,000 $ 


3,044,000 

83,286,000 

114,508,000 

203,020,000 

1,703,000 

39,643,000 

8,146’000 

1,460,000 

3,997,000 

54,128’(X)0 

13,696^000 

7,251,000 

6,223,000 


Total Military 
Charge 

87,244,000 

11,967,000 

7,928,000 

9,097,000 

270,918,000 

318,446,000 

341,820,000 

5,965,000 

120,676,000 

38,000 

20,266,000 

5,258,000 

12,589,000 

13,856,000 

319,770,000 

5,402,000 

51,367,000 

22,565,000 

48,294,000 


$553,836,000 $1,682,271,000 


$120,729,000 

43,405,000 


$8,236,000 

20,431,000 

7,653,000 


Army and Navy 
not differentiated 


$283,086,000 

92,601,000 

100,099,000 


$18,819,000 

44,951,000 

17,505,000 

1,900,000 

1,500,000 

10,700,000 

5,400,000 

3,000,000 

1,500,000 


Total (Mexico and 
South America.... 


WORLD TOTAL. 


$105,275,000 


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